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Weblog Tools Market
elise.com: On the Job: An Overview of the Weblog Tools Market
By Elise BauerAugust 6, 2004
Weblogs, although often described as online diaries, are a much more interesting trend than that label would imply. Yes, weblogs are personal journals on the web, and as such they represent the breadth and depth of human interest and knowledge. Not only do blogs allow millions of people to easily and instantaneously publish ideas to websites, most weblogs incorporate interactive features that let others easily comment to those sites, thus transforming the static web into millions of dynamic conversations. Weblogs are increasingly making their way into the professional communications arena as evidenced by FCC Chairman Michael Powell’s blog which he recently started to help generate public discussions around often-controversial FCC policy. Companies are beginning to use weblogs as an internal tool for knowledge sharing. Intuit has created a weblog to open lines of communications with its QuickBooks customers. Technorati tracks over 3 million weblogs, a number that appears to be doubling every 6 months, giving weblogs growth rates that we saw in the early days of the web. Weblogs cannot be dismissed as a fad; they will change the very nature of how we connect and communicate.
Weblog Tools
What does the blog tool market look like today? Weblog tools can be distinguished along two dimensions: fee vs. free and hosted services vs. standalone software (although this distinction is blurring as standalone application companies are beginning to offer hosted versions). The vast majority of blogs are hosted on services that offer weblog building tools and server space for free, for a small fee, or as a feature of a more comprehensive service. Blogger.com, an early-to-market free ad-supported service bought by Google in 2002, is the big guerilla in the market with most likely the largest market share. Live Journal is a hosted blog community with over a million active accounts, 90% of whose users are 25 years old and younger, and two thirds of whom are female. Live Journal weblogs often look more like forums or chat sessions than web pages with structured content. DiaryLand has a large base of teen webloggers and the look of its website suggests a female skew as well. AOL launched its AOL Journals in 2003 as a feature of the AOL service. Typepad, a fee-only service offered by Six Apart, is the most professionally oriented of the hosted consumer services and attracts a broader demographic than the other services.
Hosted services probably represent between 70 and 85% of the weblogs published. The rest are built using standalone applications that are hosted on a user’s individual server or web host. The stand-alone applications tend to be aimed at a more technically sophisticated audience, have many more features and design flexibility, and are thus more suited to professional applications than the hosted services.
The key differentiator between the various stand-alone applications is whether they are open source and free, or if there is a license fee required. Of the standalone applications, Movable Type, also by Six Apart - the makers of Typepad, is the most dominant. Movable Type began its life as shareware, establishing a large user base and developer community. It has since moved to a fee-based licensing model. Expression Engine from pMachine, like Movable Type, also requires a fee-based license, as does Radio Userland. Expression Engine and Radio offer hosting packages of their software. Movable Type and Expression Engine are considered the most robust, in terms of features and extensibility, of the stand-alone applications.
There are several open-source GPL or BSD licensed weblog packages available including Wordpress, Drupal, Greymatter, Textpattern, and Blosxom. Of these, Wordpress appears to have the highest distribution to date. A benefit to using an open source solution is that they tend to have active developer communities contributing to the code base and to user-maintained support forums. The downside is that there aren’t the funds to do market expansion or offer more comprehensive support. One benefit to using a fee-based licensed product, not lost on the professional market, is that companies that charge for their products can offer better support and resources for product improvement.
Market Share
Trying to draw a picture of the emerging weblog tools market is difficult at best. The industry is still very young, rapidly changing, for the most part highly fragmented, and with new entrants coming on the scene every day. Coupled with the rise in weblog tools are syndication tools, such as RSS and Atom, which help proliferate weblog content across the Internet. Standards are getting established, the tools are evolving, and the market is growing quickly. Most of the tools are created by private companies that do not reveal their use statistics. A weblog tool can be a standalone software product, a paid service, or a feature of a product or service, thus muddying the waters even further. Many of the tools are free and although the companies can track downloads and accounts, people can have multiple accounts and download multiple times, therefore lending to an overestimation of actual active users.
So which tools have the greatest share of the market? Without solid numbers, which even the tool providers would have a hard time providing, that is a difficult question to answer precisely. One way to look at it may be to consider which tools have the most influence, or are getting the most use. To try to get an answer to this question I’ve turned to Google. By typing in the domain name of a tool you can find the number of web pages that link to the domain name and the number of pages that contain the search term of that domain name. For example, AOL Journals are all hosted at journals.aol.com. By searching this domain name in Google we find that about 42,300 pages link to journals.aol.com and 159,000 pages contain the domain name journals.aol.com. This compares with 291,000 pages that link to blogspot.com (Blogger’s domain name) and 1.2 million pages that contain the domain name blogspot.com.
For a reality check on these numbers, we know that Technorati tracks over 3 million blogs and that number is increasing at a 6 month doubling rate. The scale at least of the Google links is in line with Technorati numbers. Live Journal reports over 1.8 million weblogs, which is within range of the 1.1 million URLs that Google has picked up. I would not have expected as many URLs for Live Journal or Diaryland, but then again these tools are targeted at a much younger audience, whose weblogs I would be less likely to come across, and who tend to keep their linking activity within their own community.
One anomaly is Typepad. Google finds 55,000 pages that link to typepad.com and 724,000 pages that contain the URL. I would expect a fee-only service to have not nearly the number of weblogs as one of the free services. Live Journal reports that only 2% of their users are paying for their relatively inexpensive premium service. What I can believe is that because Typepad is the most expensive consumer hosted blogging service, and the most feature-rich, it is attracting customers who are more serious about their blogs. I would expect that Typepad customers write more often and more thoughtfully about subjects that would interest a broader market than customers of a teen-oriented site like Live Journal or DiaryLand. Each blog entry in Typepad is stored on the Typepad server as a separate page and URL, so perhaps the Google numbers are reflecting not only the mentions of Typepad blogs on other weblogs, but also a larger number of entries than what one would find on average with a free service or product. Free services, by their nature of being free, would have a larger proportion of rarely used weblogs.
Weblog Use Index
Since actual share numbers are impossible to come by, I have combined the Google Link To and Contain URL numbers to come up with what I am calling the Weblog Use Index, an index of market influence based solely on Google results. Clearly a problem with this approach is that it weighs more heavily the hosted services where each weblog created contains the URL of the service. Weblogs that use the standalone tools may not cite the tool used and therefore would not get counted with this method. However, when we look at the overall results, they seem to fit what we would expect in general. Blogger, Google’s free service, has the lion’s share, followed by Live Journal, the most active weblog online community.
This view of the blog market is certain to generate criticism. I am very open to suggestions for an improved methodology using publicly available information. I am surprised by Typepad's importance on the Use Index given that it is a fee-based service. However, considering that I know of and read countless Typepad blogs and virtually no Live Journal or Diaryland blogs, maybe I shouldn't be so surprised.
The Emerging Business Market
As more businesses find valuable uses for weblog technology, there will be increasing demand for professionally-oriented tools, hosted services, and professional support services. Six Apart and pMachine serve this market now with their Movable Type and Expression Engine applications, but they have barely made a dent given what the opportunity is. Expect a whole new wave of products, services, and companies to be created over the next 12 to 18 months to cater specifically to the business market.
Blogging Tools
Here are some links to weblog tools mentioned in this article and a few others as well:
Hosted Blog ServicesFree:Blogger.comBlogdriveA Hosted Blog Platform Test Writeup
Fee:Typepad
Hosted Blog CommunitiesLive Journal AOL JournalsDiaryLandXanga AlwaysOn Network
Blog SoftwareFee:Movable TypeExpression Engine Radio Userland
Open source and free:Wordpressb2evolutionDrupalGreymatterTextpatternBlosxomNucleuscmsRoller WebloggerPivot
Blog Indices and Search ResourcesTechnoratiFeedsterBlogdexBlogpulseBlogwiseBlogstreet
Websites Focused on Blog Market SizingBlogcountbsentinelBlogCensusPosted by elise on August 6, 2004 11:28 PMCopyright © 2004 Elise Bauer. All Rights Reserved (unless otherwise specified). http://www.elise.com/web/
By Elise BauerAugust 6, 2004
Weblogs, although often described as online diaries, are a much more interesting trend than that label would imply. Yes, weblogs are personal journals on the web, and as such they represent the breadth and depth of human interest and knowledge. Not only do blogs allow millions of people to easily and instantaneously publish ideas to websites, most weblogs incorporate interactive features that let others easily comment to those sites, thus transforming the static web into millions of dynamic conversations. Weblogs are increasingly making their way into the professional communications arena as evidenced by FCC Chairman Michael Powell’s blog which he recently started to help generate public discussions around often-controversial FCC policy. Companies are beginning to use weblogs as an internal tool for knowledge sharing. Intuit has created a weblog to open lines of communications with its QuickBooks customers. Technorati tracks over 3 million weblogs, a number that appears to be doubling every 6 months, giving weblogs growth rates that we saw in the early days of the web. Weblogs cannot be dismissed as a fad; they will change the very nature of how we connect and communicate.
Weblog Tools
What does the blog tool market look like today? Weblog tools can be distinguished along two dimensions: fee vs. free and hosted services vs. standalone software (although this distinction is blurring as standalone application companies are beginning to offer hosted versions). The vast majority of blogs are hosted on services that offer weblog building tools and server space for free, for a small fee, or as a feature of a more comprehensive service. Blogger.com, an early-to-market free ad-supported service bought by Google in 2002, is the big guerilla in the market with most likely the largest market share. Live Journal is a hosted blog community with over a million active accounts, 90% of whose users are 25 years old and younger, and two thirds of whom are female. Live Journal weblogs often look more like forums or chat sessions than web pages with structured content. DiaryLand has a large base of teen webloggers and the look of its website suggests a female skew as well. AOL launched its AOL Journals in 2003 as a feature of the AOL service. Typepad, a fee-only service offered by Six Apart, is the most professionally oriented of the hosted consumer services and attracts a broader demographic than the other services.
Hosted services probably represent between 70 and 85% of the weblogs published. The rest are built using standalone applications that are hosted on a user’s individual server or web host. The stand-alone applications tend to be aimed at a more technically sophisticated audience, have many more features and design flexibility, and are thus more suited to professional applications than the hosted services.
The key differentiator between the various stand-alone applications is whether they are open source and free, or if there is a license fee required. Of the standalone applications, Movable Type, also by Six Apart - the makers of Typepad, is the most dominant. Movable Type began its life as shareware, establishing a large user base and developer community. It has since moved to a fee-based licensing model. Expression Engine from pMachine, like Movable Type, also requires a fee-based license, as does Radio Userland. Expression Engine and Radio offer hosting packages of their software. Movable Type and Expression Engine are considered the most robust, in terms of features and extensibility, of the stand-alone applications.
There are several open-source GPL or BSD licensed weblog packages available including Wordpress, Drupal, Greymatter, Textpattern, and Blosxom. Of these, Wordpress appears to have the highest distribution to date. A benefit to using an open source solution is that they tend to have active developer communities contributing to the code base and to user-maintained support forums. The downside is that there aren’t the funds to do market expansion or offer more comprehensive support. One benefit to using a fee-based licensed product, not lost on the professional market, is that companies that charge for their products can offer better support and resources for product improvement.
Market Share
Trying to draw a picture of the emerging weblog tools market is difficult at best. The industry is still very young, rapidly changing, for the most part highly fragmented, and with new entrants coming on the scene every day. Coupled with the rise in weblog tools are syndication tools, such as RSS and Atom, which help proliferate weblog content across the Internet. Standards are getting established, the tools are evolving, and the market is growing quickly. Most of the tools are created by private companies that do not reveal their use statistics. A weblog tool can be a standalone software product, a paid service, or a feature of a product or service, thus muddying the waters even further. Many of the tools are free and although the companies can track downloads and accounts, people can have multiple accounts and download multiple times, therefore lending to an overestimation of actual active users.
So which tools have the greatest share of the market? Without solid numbers, which even the tool providers would have a hard time providing, that is a difficult question to answer precisely. One way to look at it may be to consider which tools have the most influence, or are getting the most use. To try to get an answer to this question I’ve turned to Google. By typing in the domain name of a tool you can find the number of web pages that link to the domain name and the number of pages that contain the search term of that domain name. For example, AOL Journals are all hosted at journals.aol.com. By searching this domain name in Google we find that about 42,300 pages link to journals.aol.com and 159,000 pages contain the domain name journals.aol.com. This compares with 291,000 pages that link to blogspot.com (Blogger’s domain name) and 1.2 million pages that contain the domain name blogspot.com.
For a reality check on these numbers, we know that Technorati tracks over 3 million blogs and that number is increasing at a 6 month doubling rate. The scale at least of the Google links is in line with Technorati numbers. Live Journal reports over 1.8 million weblogs, which is within range of the 1.1 million URLs that Google has picked up. I would not have expected as many URLs for Live Journal or Diaryland, but then again these tools are targeted at a much younger audience, whose weblogs I would be less likely to come across, and who tend to keep their linking activity within their own community.
One anomaly is Typepad. Google finds 55,000 pages that link to typepad.com and 724,000 pages that contain the URL. I would expect a fee-only service to have not nearly the number of weblogs as one of the free services. Live Journal reports that only 2% of their users are paying for their relatively inexpensive premium service. What I can believe is that because Typepad is the most expensive consumer hosted blogging service, and the most feature-rich, it is attracting customers who are more serious about their blogs. I would expect that Typepad customers write more often and more thoughtfully about subjects that would interest a broader market than customers of a teen-oriented site like Live Journal or DiaryLand. Each blog entry in Typepad is stored on the Typepad server as a separate page and URL, so perhaps the Google numbers are reflecting not only the mentions of Typepad blogs on other weblogs, but also a larger number of entries than what one would find on average with a free service or product. Free services, by their nature of being free, would have a larger proportion of rarely used weblogs.
Weblog Use Index
Since actual share numbers are impossible to come by, I have combined the Google Link To and Contain URL numbers to come up with what I am calling the Weblog Use Index, an index of market influence based solely on Google results. Clearly a problem with this approach is that it weighs more heavily the hosted services where each weblog created contains the URL of the service. Weblogs that use the standalone tools may not cite the tool used and therefore would not get counted with this method. However, when we look at the overall results, they seem to fit what we would expect in general. Blogger, Google’s free service, has the lion’s share, followed by Live Journal, the most active weblog online community.
This view of the blog market is certain to generate criticism. I am very open to suggestions for an improved methodology using publicly available information. I am surprised by Typepad's importance on the Use Index given that it is a fee-based service. However, considering that I know of and read countless Typepad blogs and virtually no Live Journal or Diaryland blogs, maybe I shouldn't be so surprised.
The Emerging Business Market
As more businesses find valuable uses for weblog technology, there will be increasing demand for professionally-oriented tools, hosted services, and professional support services. Six Apart and pMachine serve this market now with their Movable Type and Expression Engine applications, but they have barely made a dent given what the opportunity is. Expect a whole new wave of products, services, and companies to be created over the next 12 to 18 months to cater specifically to the business market.
Blogging Tools
Here are some links to weblog tools mentioned in this article and a few others as well:
Hosted Blog ServicesFree:Blogger.comBlogdriveA Hosted Blog Platform Test Writeup
Fee:Typepad
Hosted Blog CommunitiesLive Journal AOL JournalsDiaryLandXanga AlwaysOn Network
Blog SoftwareFee:Movable TypeExpression Engine Radio Userland
Open source and free:Wordpressb2evolutionDrupalGreymatterTextpatternBlosxomNucleuscmsRoller WebloggerPivot
Blog Indices and Search ResourcesTechnoratiFeedsterBlogdexBlogpulseBlogwiseBlogstreet
Websites Focused on Blog Market SizingBlogcountbsentinelBlogCensusPosted by elise on August 6, 2004 11:28 PMCopyright © 2004 Elise Bauer. All Rights Reserved (unless otherwise specified). http://www.elise.com/web/
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Blog Tools
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Adminimizer Toolbar
The easiest tool for updating your Blog with Internet Explorer 6
ashnews
a simple program using PHP/MySQL that allows you to easily add a news/blog system to your site
AvantBlog
a very simple interface which will allow you to post to a blog from your Palm or WinCE device via AvantGo
b2
A news/blog tool
b2evolution
a multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog engine. It was developed to provide a free, feature rich, extensible, and easy-to-install solution for efficient Web publishing of information ranging from professional news feeds to personal weblogs. b2evo can easily be installed on almost any LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) host in a matter of minutes
Blog
An automatic web log program which allows you to update your site easily without the hassles of HTML editing and having to use a separate program to upload your work. Windows client freeware
Blog Navigator
makes it easy to read blogs on the Internet. It integrates into various blog search engines and can automatically determine RSS feeds from within properly coded websites
BlogAmp
a web audio player for bloggers. Blog-Amp can be positioned on a web page or displayed in a mini pop-up window. BlogAmp does not require listeners to use media player applications which means that everyone with a web browser can listen. For bloggers themselves it couldn’t be any easier when it comes to managing, programming and tracking their Blog-Amp. Simply upload any recorded MP3 files to your secure online media manager
Blogarithm
a web service that let's you subscribe to blogs and be notified by email when they have new content. Also has a tool to generate stickers you can add to your own blog to make it easy for readers to subscribe to you. A way to be reminded about blogs you read and to generate more views of your blog
Blog (Web-Tagebuch)
Dies ist die Demonstration eines Webservice, der die Funktionalität eines blogs bereitstellt
BlogBack
Allows visitors to comment on your weblog posts, without the need to host the service yourself
Blogbox
Blogboxes provide exciting, instantly deployed functionality for your blog or Web site. They are free for non-commercial use
blogBuddy
A small Windows client providing a front-end to the blogger.com website
BlogChat
a browser-based chat window that you can attach to your weblog or site. When you are online your visitors can engage in a text discussion with you in real time. The chat can be a popup window or you can embed it right in the page. All you have to do is put some links on your page, we provide the service. If you run PHP and mySql, you can host your own single blogchat by running the original free version. It has less features and requires your hands-on maintenance, but comes as source
BlogCounter
Free comprehensive site statistics and web counter system for bloggers which tracks host/IP (both proxyfied & 'real' IP), referrers, Search Engine keywords, user agents, date & time, resolution & color, operating system, online time spent, page impressions, browsed page paths, currently online visitors and more!
blogdex
System built to harness the power of personal news, amalgamating and organizing personal news content into one navigable source
blogdexter
Will help you jump to the page on blogdex that displays the web addresses of people who have linked to your URL
BlogFace
provides a weblog-style interface to a cataloged collection of objects, without requiring that the catalog or entries be modified, or even know about the BlogFace at all. It will work with any catalog and collection of entry objects, so long as the catalog provides an ISO format date attribute for each entry record
BlogFlix
Use this blog and online service to add video effects (pan and zoom) to blog photos. Also delivers Flash video clips in a small frame in your blog. Just paste a snippet of code to make movies appear. Supports all major blog hosting services
Blogger FAQ blog
The blog formerly known as Blogger archive/template troubles, featuring fixes for problems with Blogger's archives, templates, and more
BloggerBot
Blogger AIM client
Bloglet
offers an email subscription service for your blog
blogLinker
a free tool to manage your web links on your blog/website and to dramatically increase traffic to your site. It can be embedded anywhere in your web page and can be easily configured to fit the existing design of your site. blogLinker is the only tool of its kind
BlogMax
An Emacs package that aids in the creation of a weblog
Blogrolling.com
This site provides a free, easy to use service to manage your buddy lists on your blog that works with every major blog tool and website.
BlogSnob
The better, faster way to publicize your personal site
blogsnow
'reads' blogs, depending on what's going on between 100 and 240 a minute. Out of this stream of information it extracts links and displays them in different views every 10 minutes
Blogster.net - Top 25
Blosxom
[pronounced "blossom" or "blogsome"] is a lightweight yet feature-packed Weblog application designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and interoperability in mind - Mac OS X
bookmarklet.ping
Allows a user to ping the weblogs.com update server via the Userland pingSiteForm
bplog
a minimal weblog/news script for use with Apache+PHP+MySQL
Bricks Site Builder
A Dynamic HTML (DHTML) layout tool that runs on Apache + mod_perl + Mason. It enables a web designer to quickly build assemblies bricks (dynamic components, such as images, or weblogs) using a web-based select-and-submit interface
Chronicle Lite
provides a friendly client application for people who use Blogger.com for all of their journalling needs. It also looks to satisfy the needs of the "power users" who want to interact with files on their local computer, and publish them to their online journal. Helpful shortcut keys speed up editing of HTML content, and drag-and-drop support allows tags to be created simply by dropping a file onto the Chronicle Lite window
CityDesk
runs on your Windows desktop, using any web server. Files uploaded via FTP
CocoBlog
a free weblogging software tool based on Apache Cocoon and Apache Xindice
corzblog
a drop-in-and-blog content management system for human beings. stylish, intelligent, easy-to-use blogging with automatic rss/rdf news syndication, secure editing, one-click blog archiving, and expanded bbcode entry. a blogging system with character. worth a look just for the cute archives menu. the bbcode to html to bbcode parser can also function in stand-alone mode, navigate to /inc/cbparser.php for its built-in demo
csBlog
a powerful blog (web log/journal) management tool. Use the script to create ongoing news items or journal entries. csBlog allows you to quickly and easily manage entries into your website with ease. CGI / Perl script. $49.00
DAWG project
The goal: write a cool, easy to use, easy to install, attractive, and VERY flexible weblog generator using PHP 4 and its XML-related functions
diary2002.cgi
is an online journal or diary script. You may call it also a blogger or weblog. fact is you will be able to write, read, search and delete your own articles or stories from your browser. diary2002.cgi is designed for easy setup, use and maintaining. web publishing has never been that easy. your articles will be stored in text file format, so no database like for example "mysql" is needed
dotcomments
Free, distributable PHP-based comment system used on hundreds of individual and group weblogs
Drupal
A full-featured content management/discussion engine suitable to setup a news-driven community or portal site.
EasyMoblog
an open-source platform for personal weblogs and moblogs. It allows the creation of customizable and easy-to-use weblogs: you'll be able to update your EasyMoblog contents just sending e-mail messages
ecto
a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as TypePad, MovableType, WordPress, Drupal, Nucleus, Blogger, and more. ecto is the successor of the wildly popular Kung-Log, which has been in use by thousands of Mac users and which earned a 4.5 mice in the MacWorld July 2003 issue. ecto earned high ratings at VersionTracker.com, and at MacUpdate.com
enetation
is a play on words of annotation, the adding of remarks or comments to something. The aim of enetation is to provide a system that allows users that are not able to afford hosting or have the technical knowledge to install scripting to have commenting on their website
EzWebBlog
Professionally Designed Complete Blogging System
Falou & Disse
commenting system for blogger.com
Falasério
commenting system for blogger.com - in Portugese
Frequency
a desktop weblog client. If you have a weblog you manage with Blogger, Radio, Movable Type, or other Blogger API or metaWeblog API system, you can use Frequency to add new posts instead of logging into the web site every time. Comes in three versions: Mac OS X, Windows2000/XP, and Mac OS 9
Geeklog
allows you to create your own virtual community area, complete with user administration, story posting, messaging, comments, polls, calendar, weblinks, and more! It can run on many different operating systems, and uses PHP4 and MySQL
googlebox js
online form for creating a googlebox
GoogleBrowser
this lets you browse Google recursively, finding connections between sites. Enter any URL, and then follow the arrows to see other related sites.
Greymatter
For anyone interested in creating an online weblog or journal, Greymatter offers a new level of power and control
handX webLog for Palm OS
Allows you to use your Palm OS device to create webLog (blog) entries for a web site
iBlog
you post messages to your weblog using blogger XML-RPC API
Instant Gratification
a way to get AIM instant messages when someone reads your blog. Only requires adding a small fragment of HTML to the blog that you want alerts from
InTerra
a blog engine, rather simple at first sight, but extremely powerful inside. Moreover it is extremely scalable and extendible thanks to 3tier architecture and high-end design guidelines
Jabber
The first application of Jabber technology is an instant messaging system focused on privacy, security, ease of use, access from anywhere using any device, and interoperability with IM, phone, and web-based services
Jericho
a Java-based weblogging tool which interfaces with the Blogger and Manila XML-RPC interface
jogger
Powered by Jabber, this new weblog service (or blog) allows anyone to update their own personal journal through a normal Jabber client. Jogger is intended to demonstrate how Jabber can be used as a platform for application communication
Journaling Script
Free CGI script for publishing your own journal or weblog
JustBlogIt
a Mozilla / Firefox extension to allow easy right-click posting to a weblog. From any website your new blog post is only a right-click away
Link Feedback
see and show where your visitors come from! - a very simple set of links that you can insert into your pages to automatically track incoming links and echo them back to people who visit your site. Basically it's automated link-exchanging, but hopefully with more interesting results - Sean Nolan
Link Hype
where the intelliforge webminer bot post interesting links it finds
LiveJournal Meme Tracker
From this page you can see the most popular URLs referenced recently on LiveJournal
Manila
An Internet server application that allows groups of writers, designers and graphics people to manage full-featured, high performance Web sites through an easy-to-use browser interface
MarsEdit
a weblog editor for Mac OS X that makes weblog writing like writing email—with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, and even AppleScript support
Master WebLog
Written primarily for maintaining WebLog pages
monaural jerk
Allows one or more authors to regularly publish content without touching HTML. It has a nifty web-based editing/publishing sytem. It has a built-in search engine. And it is free for personal or corporate use, under the GPL: this is open-source software
Movable Type
Six Apart's powerful, customizable publishing system which installs on web servers to enable individuals or organizations to manage and update weblogs, journals, and frequently-updated website content
MozBlog
a tool to enable people to a blog with mozilla while they surfing
myMediaList.com
a free, web-based tool for all blogs. It lets you embed and remotely manage a list of music, books, films and computer games anywhere in your blog/webpage. Fully customizable design. Beats coding html; just copy and paste a single line of code
MySmartChannels
an Application Framework Server that lets anyone quickly and easily publish, organize, and reuse information in a secure Web environment. Beneath the MySmartChannels interface lies a powerful Web services platform that provides a solid foundation for corporate blogging, knowledge management (KM), enterprise collaboration (EC), and a collection of services for solving a wide variety of content-oriented problems. A FREE MySmartChannels User Account is available
NanoBlogger
a small developement & demo site for a small weblog engine
NewsBruiser
A simple but full-featured weblog management system. It is almost entirely self-contained, requiring nothing but SSI and Python (1.5.6 or greater) to be happy
Nucleus
allows you to easily maintain your own weblog(s) on your own server. It offers a system that is easy to install, but still offers maximum flexibility
Open Journal Project
Free, perl-based open journal script you install on your Web server to maintain a Web log or online diary
Particle Blogger
allows you to set up a blog in minutes just by entering your database settings and running the installer script. You can then begin blogging with automatic archiving of posts my month, an integrated RSS feed and the option to turn on static (search engine friendly) URLs. Requirements: PHP 4.x or above. MySQL 3 (4 recommended)
Personal Weblog
PHP/MySQL include file for adding a weblog to a home page. It is highly configurable and can be changed to fit any web page style
PhoneBlogger
a tool for publishing to a blog via a phone call. It is an automated voice application that first asks you for info about which pre-configured blog you wish to post to. After collecting the necessary information, PhoneBlogger records your audio message. Finally, it posts a blog entry that links to the recorded audio
PHPBloggerAPI
a PHP implementation of the Blogger XML-RPC API. The code is available as a collection of "free-standing" functions, or a fully OO class
PHP-Blogger
a free script for posting and sharing news, pictures and slideshows with your friends and family. It provides tools for posting and editing posts without the need for an FTP client. It provides authentication for a single-user and allows the user to customize certain aspects of the UI. Of course, since the script is open-source it can be completely modified from the ground-up for those who like to dabble in PHP scripting
phpWebLog
A complete news-driven website package with lots of bells and whistles. A few features include interchangeable templates/themes, multilanguage translations, fully configurable web-based administration, rdf import/exporting, internal links / statistics pages, search / archiving capabilities, and more
PikiePikie
A collection of CGI scripts, written in the Python language, with which to create collaborative web sites in the tradition of WikiWiki. Each page can contain its own weblog, and the page layout can be customised extensively. The latest version supports skins, or themes, with which visitors can select their preferred appearance for the site
Ping-O-Matic
will let you send a ping to various weblog tracking services such as weblogs.com, blo.gs, Technorati, BlogShares, and more, to let them know that you have updated your content
Pivot
a web-based tool to help you maintain dynamic sites, like weblogs or online journals. Pivot is released under the GPL so it is completely free to use. It is written in PHP, and does not require additional libraries or databases to function
Pix8.net
Free Image Hosting - Provides free image hosting to customers. Take advantage of free hosting offers today without having to signup for a webhosting account. Good for ebay and yahoo advertisements, weblog users' images. No signup required
pLog
a PHP and MySQL based blogging platform and its main goals are flexibility and extendibility. It uses a powerful template system based on the Smarty template engine to render the templates, whick makes the platform highly customizable and safer to let other people customize the templates, since the presentation code is isolated from the PHP code
pMachine
is blogging/news software with a LOT of extra features, like member registration, mailing list manager, random content displayer, search engine, birthday calendar, hit counter.... and, well... MORE! pMachine runs on your own server and installation is a breeze
Polywogg
was designed to allow users to view journals on the web. Polywogg Publisher and Polywogg Reader provide links to the web. In addition, anyone can go to www.polywogg.com to view journals, read and leave comments, view user profiles and to send feedback to Polywogg management. for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or Higher
Popdex
the website popularity index
The Posting Station
Excellent blog/website creation tool that allows users to create photo galleries, categorized posts, and much more. The site features an email notification system that allows your site's visitors to subscribe to topics and the Posting Station will email your subscribers automaticly when you create posts. No more fuss about having to notify people to take a look at your site when it is updated, the posting station will do this for you
PostNuke
an Open Source content management system
Psychoblogger
PB or Psychoblogger is a PHP/MySQL based Blogging tool. Requirements: PHP 4.1.0+, MySQL 3.23+, Web Server
PWAIN
a windows client that uses WYSIWYG editing and ftp upload. It has full image support
pyLJclient
a Live Journal client written in python and wxpython
Quick Topic bookmarklet
makes adding a Quick Topic "Discuss" link to your weblog (or any web page) super-easy
Quickblog
an automated web publishing tool currently in beta test. Quickblog offers many of the same features as other popular blogging tools such as Blogger or LiveJournal
Radio UserLand
An easy-to-use Weblog tool that runs on your desktop. Automatically builds your site, organizes and archives your posts, and publishes your content -- without any knowledge of HTML, FTP, or graphic design
Reblogger
Allows readers of Web Logs managed by Blogger to post comments on a post. Reblogger features a post counter, which indicates how many comments have been made on a certain post
Roller
server-based weblogging software - a web application that is designed to support multiple simultaneous weblog users and visitors. If you want to see Roller in action, take a look at the Blogging Roller weblog
scoop
A "collaborative media application". It falls somewhere between a content management system, a web bulletin board system, and a weblog
ScratchLog
a Weblog/Journal script based on PHP and MySQL
Serendipity
a weblog/blog system, implemented with PHP. It is standards compliant, feature rich and open source. Needs a PHP installation together with a MySQL or PostgreSQL server
Simplog
provides an easy way for users to add blogging capabilities to their existing websites. Simplog is written in PHP and compatible with multiple databases. Simplog also features an RSS/Atom aggregator/reader. Powerful, yet simple.......
SIPS - Simple Internet Publishing System
web based system for publishing news stories, and it will in later versions have options for letting users discuss these stories. It also has an integrated search/link indexing system
SnorComments2
a script programmed in perl that can be run on most web servers with cgi capabilities. It can be used for adding a commenting feature to Blogger.com blogs
Soapbox
an easy to use, open, cross-platform, web application for creating, managing, and publishing weblogs
Squishdot
Host your own weblogs with software similar to slashdot.org. Built as a plug-in module for the Zope Application Server
telnet7 - Bloggy
simple and yet powerful web blogger for websites that use free webhosting services like Tripod, Angelfire, etc. telnet7 Bloggy is still in its alpha stages but can already be used
texting.com
"This is a simple concept. We tell people about cool websites. Sites are ranked by how many times our users add them. To make texting.com useful, you should join the fun. The more the merrier"
TextRouter
paste text to Blogger.com or Manila weblogs
thatware
Based on Apache/PHP3/MySQL
Thingamablog
a cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes authoring and publishing your weblogs almost effortless. Unlike most blogging solutions, Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a cgi/php enabled web host, or a MySQL database. In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server
Tinderbox
A personal content management assistant for making, analyzing and sharing notes. A tool for making Web logs and news sites. It's superb for collecting and understanding complex information. Tinderbox for Macintosh will ship in February 2002. Tinderbox for Windows will follow
tkblog
- free blogging application. standalone, cross-platform. does NOT require blogger.com, etc. or xml, or php/mysql, or running your own server
Tojo
an online collaborative journal/diary system written in PHP, allowing multiple users to add entries to a page, with a new page every day. It is designed for small groups in mind, and thus works differently from a BBS/forum or blog
TowerBlog
Fast & powerful weblogging program that runs on any server supporting PHP 4.1 or greater. Features a customizeable layout via CSS & templates, a fullly searchable archive & category system, as well as quick and efficiant backup and restores
Traction Software
The leading Enterprise Weblog software. Easy to use, secure blogging software designed for business and group use
Trellix
Create your own weblog using client-side windows based software. No HTML experience required
TypePad
a personal publishing service designed to provide a simple yet full-featured environment for you to put your thoughts, ideas, and experiences on the web, whether it be a weblog, journal, photo album, diary, or an entirely new creation. With TypePad, there's no installation or configuration required. Your website and all the tools are managed by the service, and upgrades and updates to the TypePad application are included in your service subscription fee
Userplane AV Blogger
an easy-to-use system allowing the creation of audio and video recorded messages for use in blogs, websites and email
Vanilla
simple and extensible hypertext system which subscribes to the Wiki philosophy and is written in Rebol
w.bloggar
Blogger API client
Weblog Translator
Bookmarklet for Google's Translate feature
Weblogs.Com
Read the hot list of weblogs most recently updated. Have your site included with the Ping-Site Form
Weblogs ping bookmarklet constructor
Simple as can be: enter the name of your blog and its URL and click submit to get a page with a bookmarklet which will ping weblogs.com in a popup window whenever you select it from your links toolbar
webpad
a web-based text editor which gives the user access to files from: the users' computer, the server it's installed on, any remote FTP server, posting to Blogger.com accounts and even the source code of webpages
WheatBlog
a web journaling application, similar to blogger in some respects, but designed for personal use on your own server
WordPress
born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001
Wordsmith
a versatile blogging tool designed to help writers get their words out in no time. It's based on PHP/MySQL platform and supports most of the standard blog functionality, and much more
Write2Left
Post a site and have it forwarded via FTP to your host. By Tim Dorr
Xoops
an open source portal script written extensively in object-oriented PHP. Backed with a number of databases (currently only mySQL), XOOPS is an ideal tool for developing small to large community websites
YACCS
a service that allows you to place a comments section in your blogger entries. It's very easy to set up and use; you don't need a server that supports php, you don't need to upload any files to your server, and you don't need to know any programming languages. Created by Hossein Sharifi
YesI!
a PHP application that allows you to build a tree-structured website via a browser. It lets you store text, images, grab webpages from other sites, share your data with others in a multi-user mode, create on-the-fly weblogs, store your contacts in the addressbook and store your appointments in the personal calendar
Zempt
a desktop tool for the Movable Type content management system
Adminimizer Toolbar
The easiest tool for updating your Blog with Internet Explorer 6
ashnews
a simple program using PHP/MySQL that allows you to easily add a news/blog system to your site
AvantBlog
a very simple interface which will allow you to post to a blog from your Palm or WinCE device via AvantGo
b2
A news/blog tool
b2evolution
a multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog engine. It was developed to provide a free, feature rich, extensible, and easy-to-install solution for efficient Web publishing of information ranging from professional news feeds to personal weblogs. b2evo can easily be installed on almost any LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) host in a matter of minutes
Blog
An automatic web log program which allows you to update your site easily without the hassles of HTML editing and having to use a separate program to upload your work. Windows client freeware
Blog Navigator
makes it easy to read blogs on the Internet. It integrates into various blog search engines and can automatically determine RSS feeds from within properly coded websites
BlogAmp
a web audio player for bloggers. Blog-Amp can be positioned on a web page or displayed in a mini pop-up window. BlogAmp does not require listeners to use media player applications which means that everyone with a web browser can listen. For bloggers themselves it couldn’t be any easier when it comes to managing, programming and tracking their Blog-Amp. Simply upload any recorded MP3 files to your secure online media manager
Blogarithm
a web service that let's you subscribe to blogs and be notified by email when they have new content. Also has a tool to generate stickers you can add to your own blog to make it easy for readers to subscribe to you. A way to be reminded about blogs you read and to generate more views of your blog
Blog (Web-Tagebuch)
Dies ist die Demonstration eines Webservice, der die Funktionalität eines blogs bereitstellt
BlogBack
Allows visitors to comment on your weblog posts, without the need to host the service yourself
Blogbox
Blogboxes provide exciting, instantly deployed functionality for your blog or Web site. They are free for non-commercial use
blogBuddy
A small Windows client providing a front-end to the blogger.com website
BlogChat
a browser-based chat window that you can attach to your weblog or site. When you are online your visitors can engage in a text discussion with you in real time. The chat can be a popup window or you can embed it right in the page. All you have to do is put some links on your page, we provide the service. If you run PHP and mySql, you can host your own single blogchat by running the original free version. It has less features and requires your hands-on maintenance, but comes as source
BlogCounter
Free comprehensive site statistics and web counter system for bloggers which tracks host/IP (both proxyfied & 'real' IP), referrers, Search Engine keywords, user agents, date & time, resolution & color, operating system, online time spent, page impressions, browsed page paths, currently online visitors and more!
blogdex
System built to harness the power of personal news, amalgamating and organizing personal news content into one navigable source
blogdexter
Will help you jump to the page on blogdex that displays the web addresses of people who have linked to your URL
BlogFace
provides a weblog-style interface to a cataloged collection of objects, without requiring that the catalog or entries be modified, or even know about the BlogFace at all. It will work with any catalog and collection of entry objects, so long as the catalog provides an ISO format date attribute for each entry record
BlogFlix
Use this blog and online service to add video effects (pan and zoom) to blog photos. Also delivers Flash video clips in a small frame in your blog. Just paste a snippet of code to make movies appear. Supports all major blog hosting services
Blogger FAQ blog
The blog formerly known as Blogger archive/template troubles, featuring fixes for problems with Blogger's archives, templates, and more
BloggerBot
Blogger AIM client
Bloglet
offers an email subscription service for your blog
blogLinker
a free tool to manage your web links on your blog/website and to dramatically increase traffic to your site. It can be embedded anywhere in your web page and can be easily configured to fit the existing design of your site. blogLinker is the only tool of its kind
BlogMax
An Emacs package that aids in the creation of a weblog
Blogrolling.com
This site provides a free, easy to use service to manage your buddy lists on your blog that works with every major blog tool and website.
BlogSnob
The better, faster way to publicize your personal site
blogsnow
'reads' blogs, depending on what's going on between 100 and 240 a minute. Out of this stream of information it extracts links and displays them in different views every 10 minutes
Blogster.net - Top 25
Blosxom
[pronounced "blossom" or "blogsome"] is a lightweight yet feature-packed Weblog application designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and interoperability in mind - Mac OS X
bookmarklet.ping
Allows a user to ping the weblogs.com update server via the Userland pingSiteForm
bplog
a minimal weblog/news script for use with Apache+PHP+MySQL
Bricks Site Builder
A Dynamic HTML (DHTML) layout tool that runs on Apache + mod_perl + Mason. It enables a web designer to quickly build assemblies bricks (dynamic components, such as images, or weblogs) using a web-based select-and-submit interface
Chronicle Lite
provides a friendly client application for people who use Blogger.com for all of their journalling needs. It also looks to satisfy the needs of the "power users" who want to interact with files on their local computer, and publish them to their online journal. Helpful shortcut keys speed up editing of HTML content, and drag-and-drop support allows tags to be created simply by dropping a file onto the Chronicle Lite window
CityDesk
runs on your Windows desktop, using any web server. Files uploaded via FTP
CocoBlog
a free weblogging software tool based on Apache Cocoon and Apache Xindice
corzblog
a drop-in-and-blog content management system for human beings. stylish, intelligent, easy-to-use blogging with automatic rss/rdf news syndication, secure editing, one-click blog archiving, and expanded bbcode entry. a blogging system with character. worth a look just for the cute archives menu. the bbcode to html to bbcode parser can also function in stand-alone mode, navigate to /inc/cbparser.php for its built-in demo
csBlog
a powerful blog (web log/journal) management tool. Use the script to create ongoing news items or journal entries. csBlog allows you to quickly and easily manage entries into your website with ease. CGI / Perl script. $49.00
DAWG project
The goal: write a cool, easy to use, easy to install, attractive, and VERY flexible weblog generator using PHP 4 and its XML-related functions
diary2002.cgi
is an online journal or diary script. You may call it also a blogger or weblog. fact is you will be able to write, read, search and delete your own articles or stories from your browser. diary2002.cgi is designed for easy setup, use and maintaining. web publishing has never been that easy. your articles will be stored in text file format, so no database like for example "mysql" is needed
dotcomments
Free, distributable PHP-based comment system used on hundreds of individual and group weblogs
Drupal
A full-featured content management/discussion engine suitable to setup a news-driven community or portal site.
EasyMoblog
an open-source platform for personal weblogs and moblogs. It allows the creation of customizable and easy-to-use weblogs: you'll be able to update your EasyMoblog contents just sending e-mail messages
ecto
a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as TypePad, MovableType, WordPress, Drupal, Nucleus, Blogger, and more. ecto is the successor of the wildly popular Kung-Log, which has been in use by thousands of Mac users and which earned a 4.5 mice in the MacWorld July 2003 issue. ecto earned high ratings at VersionTracker.com, and at MacUpdate.com
enetation
is a play on words of annotation, the adding of remarks or comments to something. The aim of enetation is to provide a system that allows users that are not able to afford hosting or have the technical knowledge to install scripting to have commenting on their website
EzWebBlog
Professionally Designed Complete Blogging System
Falou & Disse
commenting system for blogger.com
Falasério
commenting system for blogger.com - in Portugese
Frequency
a desktop weblog client. If you have a weblog you manage with Blogger, Radio, Movable Type, or other Blogger API or metaWeblog API system, you can use Frequency to add new posts instead of logging into the web site every time. Comes in three versions: Mac OS X, Windows2000/XP, and Mac OS 9
Geeklog
allows you to create your own virtual community area, complete with user administration, story posting, messaging, comments, polls, calendar, weblinks, and more! It can run on many different operating systems, and uses PHP4 and MySQL
googlebox js
online form for creating a googlebox
GoogleBrowser
this lets you browse Google recursively, finding connections between sites. Enter any URL, and then follow the arrows to see other related sites.
Greymatter
For anyone interested in creating an online weblog or journal, Greymatter offers a new level of power and control
handX webLog for Palm OS
Allows you to use your Palm OS device to create webLog (blog) entries for a web site
iBlog
you post messages to your weblog using blogger XML-RPC API
Instant Gratification
a way to get AIM instant messages when someone reads your blog. Only requires adding a small fragment of HTML to the blog that you want alerts from
InTerra
a blog engine, rather simple at first sight, but extremely powerful inside. Moreover it is extremely scalable and extendible thanks to 3tier architecture and high-end design guidelines
Jabber
The first application of Jabber technology is an instant messaging system focused on privacy, security, ease of use, access from anywhere using any device, and interoperability with IM, phone, and web-based services
Jericho
a Java-based weblogging tool which interfaces with the Blogger and Manila XML-RPC interface
jogger
Powered by Jabber, this new weblog service (or blog) allows anyone to update their own personal journal through a normal Jabber client. Jogger is intended to demonstrate how Jabber can be used as a platform for application communication
Journaling Script
Free CGI script for publishing your own journal or weblog
JustBlogIt
a Mozilla / Firefox extension to allow easy right-click posting to a weblog. From any website your new blog post is only a right-click away
Link Feedback
see and show where your visitors come from! - a very simple set of links that you can insert into your pages to automatically track incoming links and echo them back to people who visit your site. Basically it's automated link-exchanging, but hopefully with more interesting results - Sean Nolan
Link Hype
where the intelliforge webminer bot post interesting links it finds
LiveJournal Meme Tracker
From this page you can see the most popular URLs referenced recently on LiveJournal
Manila
An Internet server application that allows groups of writers, designers and graphics people to manage full-featured, high performance Web sites through an easy-to-use browser interface
MarsEdit
a weblog editor for Mac OS X that makes weblog writing like writing email—with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, and even AppleScript support
Master WebLog
Written primarily for maintaining WebLog pages
monaural jerk
Allows one or more authors to regularly publish content without touching HTML. It has a nifty web-based editing/publishing sytem. It has a built-in search engine. And it is free for personal or corporate use, under the GPL: this is open-source software
Movable Type
Six Apart's powerful, customizable publishing system which installs on web servers to enable individuals or organizations to manage and update weblogs, journals, and frequently-updated website content
MozBlog
a tool to enable people to a blog with mozilla while they surfing
myMediaList.com
a free, web-based tool for all blogs. It lets you embed and remotely manage a list of music, books, films and computer games anywhere in your blog/webpage. Fully customizable design. Beats coding html; just copy and paste a single line of code
MySmartChannels
an Application Framework Server that lets anyone quickly and easily publish, organize, and reuse information in a secure Web environment. Beneath the MySmartChannels interface lies a powerful Web services platform that provides a solid foundation for corporate blogging, knowledge management (KM), enterprise collaboration (EC), and a collection of services for solving a wide variety of content-oriented problems. A FREE MySmartChannels User Account is available
NanoBlogger
a small developement & demo site for a small weblog engine
NewsBruiser
A simple but full-featured weblog management system. It is almost entirely self-contained, requiring nothing but SSI and Python (1.5.6 or greater) to be happy
Nucleus
allows you to easily maintain your own weblog(s) on your own server. It offers a system that is easy to install, but still offers maximum flexibility
Open Journal Project
Free, perl-based open journal script you install on your Web server to maintain a Web log or online diary
Particle Blogger
allows you to set up a blog in minutes just by entering your database settings and running the installer script. You can then begin blogging with automatic archiving of posts my month, an integrated RSS feed and the option to turn on static (search engine friendly) URLs. Requirements: PHP 4.x or above. MySQL 3 (4 recommended)
Personal Weblog
PHP/MySQL include file for adding a weblog to a home page. It is highly configurable and can be changed to fit any web page style
PhoneBlogger
a tool for publishing to a blog via a phone call. It is an automated voice application that first asks you for info about which pre-configured blog you wish to post to. After collecting the necessary information, PhoneBlogger records your audio message. Finally, it posts a blog entry that links to the recorded audio
PHPBloggerAPI
a PHP implementation of the Blogger XML-RPC API. The code is available as a collection of "free-standing" functions, or a fully OO class
PHP-Blogger
a free script for posting and sharing news, pictures and slideshows with your friends and family. It provides tools for posting and editing posts without the need for an FTP client. It provides authentication for a single-user and allows the user to customize certain aspects of the UI. Of course, since the script is open-source it can be completely modified from the ground-up for those who like to dabble in PHP scripting
phpWebLog
A complete news-driven website package with lots of bells and whistles. A few features include interchangeable templates/themes, multilanguage translations, fully configurable web-based administration, rdf import/exporting, internal links / statistics pages, search / archiving capabilities, and more
PikiePikie
A collection of CGI scripts, written in the Python language, with which to create collaborative web sites in the tradition of WikiWiki. Each page can contain its own weblog, and the page layout can be customised extensively. The latest version supports skins, or themes, with which visitors can select their preferred appearance for the site
Ping-O-Matic
will let you send a ping to various weblog tracking services such as weblogs.com, blo.gs, Technorati, BlogShares, and more, to let them know that you have updated your content
Pivot
a web-based tool to help you maintain dynamic sites, like weblogs or online journals. Pivot is released under the GPL so it is completely free to use. It is written in PHP, and does not require additional libraries or databases to function
Pix8.net
Free Image Hosting - Provides free image hosting to customers. Take advantage of free hosting offers today without having to signup for a webhosting account. Good for ebay and yahoo advertisements, weblog users' images. No signup required
pLog
a PHP and MySQL based blogging platform and its main goals are flexibility and extendibility. It uses a powerful template system based on the Smarty template engine to render the templates, whick makes the platform highly customizable and safer to let other people customize the templates, since the presentation code is isolated from the PHP code
pMachine
is blogging/news software with a LOT of extra features, like member registration, mailing list manager, random content displayer, search engine, birthday calendar, hit counter.... and, well... MORE! pMachine runs on your own server and installation is a breeze
Polywogg
was designed to allow users to view journals on the web. Polywogg Publisher and Polywogg Reader provide links to the web. In addition, anyone can go to www.polywogg.com to view journals, read and leave comments, view user profiles and to send feedback to Polywogg management. for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or Higher
Popdex
the website popularity index
The Posting Station
Excellent blog/website creation tool that allows users to create photo galleries, categorized posts, and much more. The site features an email notification system that allows your site's visitors to subscribe to topics and the Posting Station will email your subscribers automaticly when you create posts. No more fuss about having to notify people to take a look at your site when it is updated, the posting station will do this for you
PostNuke
an Open Source content management system
Psychoblogger
PB or Psychoblogger is a PHP/MySQL based Blogging tool. Requirements: PHP 4.1.0+, MySQL 3.23+, Web Server
PWAIN
a windows client that uses WYSIWYG editing and ftp upload. It has full image support
pyLJclient
a Live Journal client written in python and wxpython
Quick Topic bookmarklet
makes adding a Quick Topic "Discuss" link to your weblog (or any web page) super-easy
Quickblog
an automated web publishing tool currently in beta test. Quickblog offers many of the same features as other popular blogging tools such as Blogger or LiveJournal
Radio UserLand
An easy-to-use Weblog tool that runs on your desktop. Automatically builds your site, organizes and archives your posts, and publishes your content -- without any knowledge of HTML, FTP, or graphic design
Reblogger
Allows readers of Web Logs managed by Blogger to post comments on a post. Reblogger features a post counter, which indicates how many comments have been made on a certain post
Roller
server-based weblogging software - a web application that is designed to support multiple simultaneous weblog users and visitors. If you want to see Roller in action, take a look at the Blogging Roller weblog
scoop
A "collaborative media application". It falls somewhere between a content management system, a web bulletin board system, and a weblog
ScratchLog
a Weblog/Journal script based on PHP and MySQL
Serendipity
a weblog/blog system, implemented with PHP. It is standards compliant, feature rich and open source. Needs a PHP installation together with a MySQL or PostgreSQL server
Simplog
provides an easy way for users to add blogging capabilities to their existing websites. Simplog is written in PHP and compatible with multiple databases. Simplog also features an RSS/Atom aggregator/reader. Powerful, yet simple.......
SIPS - Simple Internet Publishing System
web based system for publishing news stories, and it will in later versions have options for letting users discuss these stories. It also has an integrated search/link indexing system
SnorComments2
a script programmed in perl that can be run on most web servers with cgi capabilities. It can be used for adding a commenting feature to Blogger.com blogs
Soapbox
an easy to use, open, cross-platform, web application for creating, managing, and publishing weblogs
Squishdot
Host your own weblogs with software similar to slashdot.org. Built as a plug-in module for the Zope Application Server
telnet7 - Bloggy
simple and yet powerful web blogger for websites that use free webhosting services like Tripod, Angelfire, etc. telnet7 Bloggy is still in its alpha stages but can already be used
texting.com
"This is a simple concept. We tell people about cool websites. Sites are ranked by how many times our users add them. To make texting.com useful, you should join the fun. The more the merrier"
TextRouter
paste text to Blogger.com or Manila weblogs
thatware
Based on Apache/PHP3/MySQL
Thingamablog
a cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes authoring and publishing your weblogs almost effortless. Unlike most blogging solutions, Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a cgi/php enabled web host, or a MySQL database. In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server
Tinderbox
A personal content management assistant for making, analyzing and sharing notes. A tool for making Web logs and news sites. It's superb for collecting and understanding complex information. Tinderbox for Macintosh will ship in February 2002. Tinderbox for Windows will follow
tkblog
- free blogging application. standalone, cross-platform. does NOT require blogger.com, etc. or xml, or php/mysql, or running your own server
Tojo
an online collaborative journal/diary system written in PHP, allowing multiple users to add entries to a page, with a new page every day. It is designed for small groups in mind, and thus works differently from a BBS/forum or blog
TowerBlog
Fast & powerful weblogging program that runs on any server supporting PHP 4.1 or greater. Features a customizeable layout via CSS & templates, a fullly searchable archive & category system, as well as quick and efficiant backup and restores
Traction Software
The leading Enterprise Weblog software. Easy to use, secure blogging software designed for business and group use
Trellix
Create your own weblog using client-side windows based software. No HTML experience required
TypePad
a personal publishing service designed to provide a simple yet full-featured environment for you to put your thoughts, ideas, and experiences on the web, whether it be a weblog, journal, photo album, diary, or an entirely new creation. With TypePad, there's no installation or configuration required. Your website and all the tools are managed by the service, and upgrades and updates to the TypePad application are included in your service subscription fee
Userplane AV Blogger
an easy-to-use system allowing the creation of audio and video recorded messages for use in blogs, websites and email
Vanilla
simple and extensible hypertext system which subscribes to the Wiki philosophy and is written in Rebol
w.bloggar
Blogger API client
Weblog Translator
Bookmarklet for Google's Translate feature
Weblogs.Com
Read the hot list of weblogs most recently updated. Have your site included with the Ping-Site Form
Weblogs ping bookmarklet constructor
Simple as can be: enter the name of your blog and its URL and click submit to get a page with a bookmarklet which will ping weblogs.com in a popup window whenever you select it from your links toolbar
webpad
a web-based text editor which gives the user access to files from: the users' computer, the server it's installed on, any remote FTP server, posting to Blogger.com accounts and even the source code of webpages
WheatBlog
a web journaling application, similar to blogger in some respects, but designed for personal use on your own server
WordPress
born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001
Wordsmith
a versatile blogging tool designed to help writers get their words out in no time. It's based on PHP/MySQL platform and supports most of the standard blog functionality, and much more
Write2Left
Post a site and have it forwarded via FTP to your host. By Tim Dorr
Xoops
an open source portal script written extensively in object-oriented PHP. Backed with a number of databases (currently only mySQL), XOOPS is an ideal tool for developing small to large community websites
YACCS
a service that allows you to place a comments section in your blogger entries. It's very easy to set up and use; you don't need a server that supports php, you don't need to upload any files to your server, and you don't need to know any programming languages. Created by Hossein Sharifi
YesI!
a PHP application that allows you to build a tree-structured website via a browser. It lets you store text, images, grab webpages from other sites, share your data with others in a multi-user mode, create on-the-fly weblogs, store your contacts in the addressbook and store your appointments in the personal calendar
Zempt
a desktop tool for the Movable Type content management system
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Thursday, January 13, 2005
Mission Statement
a4BB is for bloggers use blogging for business communications.
To make them happy.
Closed membership, only by invitation!
Founded in Budapest, Hungary, 2005.
Are you interested to join us? Please find somebody already has an ID. National Chapters founders welcome!
To make them happy.
Closed membership, only by invitation!
Founded in Budapest, Hungary, 2005.
Are you interested to join us? Please find somebody already has an ID. National Chapters founders welcome!
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